History Mystery

Year 5 and 6 visited the National Coal Mining Museum on Monday 23^rd January to find out about life at work for children in Victorian Britain.  When they got back, they imagined being the inspectors they had heard about; listening to stories from the children who worked underground.  Here’s what they heard...

Inspectors Katy & Kayleigh:

When I was down In the coal mine I smelt the horrible, running sewage dripping down the mouldy pipes. I had the worst job just sitting there in the the pitch black mine holding a rope just waiting for my mother or farther to knock on the door for me too open ( I was named a trapper boy )

Once my mother made me a currant bun I was delighted. I put it down next to me (BAD MISTAKE) one of the rats eat it.

It was scary in the coal mine my father only had one candle but he took it in with him so I was left alone in the dark and the only live things I could talk to were the scurrying rats.”I hated it!”

They were horses working in the mine pulling carts full of coal. Only ponies pulled the carts because they were smaller than the other horses and they could.

If all of the candles get put out there would be no light in the coal mine and most of us will get hurt or even worst killed.

That is how dangerous it is in the coal mine.

History Mystery Tour

Year 5 and 6 visited the National Coal Mining Museum on Monday 23^rd January to find out about life at work for children in Victorian Britain.  When they got back, they imagined being the inspectors they had heard about; listening to stories from the children who worked underground.  Here’s what they heard...

INSPECTOR MEGAN

“The hardest job to do down in the dark and dusty coal mine is when a boy has to pull a cart full of coal”. Said Samuel Fletcher.

“When my dad took me down to the coal mine for the first time I was only five and I didn’t know what to do because I had never been down in a coal mine before and then he took a light down so we could see and then he went with the light and left me alone with no light just nothing and I was left in the pitch black all on my own”.

“Once my mother made me a creamy delicious cake and I took it down to the mine and I put it down on a piece of brown dirty cloth and then I went to grab a lovely piece and then it was gone the ugly, vicious rats had eaten it all I can still imagine how massive the rats were”.

“When a boy (aged 8-9 years) had to pull a cart full of dusty coal his older sister (aged 11-12 years) also had to help but instead of pulling she had to push. She had to wear a scarlet damp cloth but if she didn’t wear a cloth on her forehead she would have a bald patch in the middle of her head”.

Fabulous thank you letter

Glenaire Primary School
Thompson Lane
Baildon

BD17 LY


Dear Mr Pearce

I am writing to tell you how good I thought you were in Robin Hood.

I liked the way you went in the waterfall it was cool, I loved the way you made the words in the waterfall. Did you enjoy doing it?

Next year I would like to see you doing Snow White as it’s my favourite pantomime and last time I saw you do it, you were only a mirror! Could you please please please play Snow White though as this would be very funny!

Yours sincerely

Caitlin B

Eye witness homework report from Caitlin B

The door of doom

Caitlin M worked on this at home. What a fabulous and entertaining story.  Well done! 


The door of doom

Once in a vast city a family lived. There was a mum, a dad and 3 children, but there was something not quite right about their home. There was a door that was always locked and had never been opened. The children were called Electra, Zoe and Tammie and they were very curious about what might be behind the door. One of them (Zoe) even tried to open the door just for a quick look but it was like steel. Although they had been told never to go into the room they were always writing in their old school books and thinking about what might be behind the mysterious door. One idea was that it was full of little evil elves that were planning on taking over the world and turn everyone into frogs (except girls of course) or maybe a lion that was so hungry when it came out it would scoff everything in sight WARNING: Including humans. 
But the best idea was that it was a little pixy from the end of the rainbow and it had the biggest pot of gold ever and gave everyone £20,000.


These ideas probably weren’t right but still the 3 of them spent hours and hours making up stories of what might happen if they ever opened the door!

One cold Saturday morning the Electra woke up to the sweet smell of bacon, eggs, sausage and fried toast. This was the most glories smell ever she sat up and shot down the stairs and saw a fresh fry up laid on the table. So she took her seat and began to eat this mouth-watering breakfast.

Later that day her mum came out and told her to go to the posh shop (this is the name of the shop) and pick up some new earrings for her and Electra wondered why.


As she returned with Zoe and Tammie they heard a boom from an unknown place. It came from a place in the house that was for sure so they sprinted up the stairs to the locked door. It was open and ebony black is what they saw and started to wander in… 


As they approached the door knob a creak came from inside the room and the quickly ran in and saw…………

NOTHING it was black and full of boxes how would they find anything in this room it was so bad Tammie fell over and landed on something that wasn’t hard and wasn’t soft it was both.  They ran out of the room and got torches they raced up the stairs to find something enormous in the corner and they walked slowly towards it

The THING they found was wet and slimy well wet and snotty. This unusual thing sneezed and blue bogeys splatted all over the girls and they screamed with discuss and the animal of some sort said “sorry I have a, a, a”
“Oh no” screamed all the girls together and they ducked like a lightning flash just as blue bogies splashed all over the walls of the room.
“Who are you” asked Zoe 
“Well I, I, I… false alarm!”
“Good.” Electra said 
“Any how I am professor Bluetrue the goblin AND I WANT TO GO HOME!”
“Okay we will help you how can we get you home”
“Well you need to cure my sneezes and I can get home myself”
“How do we cure your sneezes then” Asked Zoe
“With medicine of course my oh my where do you come from America?”
“What normal medicine like our medicine”
“Yes what other kind of medicine”

So the girls rushed off and got cold medicine and cough medicine luckily they worked and soon professor Bluetrue was home again
(Hopefully)


P.S if you see a green looking elf that sneezes blue bogies than put him in a spacious place you don’t want to be carrying blue bogies all the way back to the girls home do you!!!

Caitlin B's homework poem Y5

A delightful poem completed at home with pictures to accompany it.  Super work Caitlin!  

Blake describing the giant's room

When I was dragged through the door I could feel the floor grating against my back. When I got in I saw the titanic chair. I could see millions of bugs and jars, and I could see gargantuan stairs. I tried and tried to climb them so it took 3 or 4 hours to do it. When I got up I could see the biggest bed ever. I walked slowly around the sleeping beast . It looked like a giant bulldog or something. It had huge teeth and giant claws I ran back down stairs quietly.

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